Kraft Heinz wrote down the value of its Kraft and Oscar Mayer brands by $15.4 billion, disclosed an investigation by federal securities regulators and slashed its dividend, sending its shares plunging after hours.144

Pinterest has confidentially filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering, joining a parade of highly valued technology startups planning to list their shares in 2019.

The U.S.’s main ally in the fight against Islamic State welcomed President Trump’s decision to leave U.S. troops in Syria, a change that Syrian Kurds have lobbied for ever since the withdrawal announcement.

A large delegation of U.S. officials is heading to Spain this weekend for the world’s largest telecommunications trade show, planning to ratchet up a monthslong offensive against Huawei that has produced mixed results.

AutoNation, the nation’s largest car-dealership chain, has named Carl Liebert its new CEO, tapping an industry outsider to steer the company through a period of transformation in the auto-retailing sector.

The new tax law drove double-digit profit growth at U.S. banks last year, a federal regulator said Thursday, boosting the industry’s profits, which would have hit a record even without the tax changes.

A delay in Nigeria’s presidential election, now set for Saturday, has further complicated a fractious contest, bringing new fraud accusations and disruptions that have cost Africa’s largest economy an estimated $2 billion.

Venezuela’s U.S.-backed opposition is preparing for a showdown with President Nicolás Maduro, when it will try to bring tons of medicine and humanitarian aid into the country in an effort to create divisions among the armed forces keeping the autocrat in power.

When North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets President Trump in Hanoi, the venue itself will carry a message for the dictator: Cooperate with the U.S. and you will open the door to an economic transformation like Vietnam’s.

The Trump administration said it would cut California out of its effort to craft new efficiency rules for cars and trucks, the latest in a series of confrontations between Washington and Sacramento that now threatens to destabilize one of the country’s biggest industries.510

A federal judge ordered longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone to avoid any further comment about his pending criminal trial after he posted a photo of the judge with what appeared to be crosshairs next to her head.113

Election officials voted to hold a new election for the state’s Ninth Congressional District, after Republican candidate Mark Harris said evidence of ballot tampering by his campaign convinced him one was needed.475